[mythtv-users] Cannot watch LiveTV

[Nick Morrott]

On 23/05/07, Steve <zflyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running:
>
> MythTV backend version 0.20.1-release (from SVN, Gentoo)
> MythTV frontend version 0.20-svn20070122-0.0ubuntu6 (from a package, Ubuntu)
>
> On the frontend, I can watch recorded programming fine but not LiveTV.
>  I'm getting the following messages on the frontend:
>
> 2007-05-23 15:10:20.813 Connecting to backend server: 10.1.1.12:6543
> (try 1 of 5)
> 2007-05-23 15:10:20.815 Using protocol version 31
> 2007-05-23 15:10:20.826 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2007-05-23 15:10:20.829 Using protocol version 31
> 2007-05-23 15:10:27.838 MythSocket(9125e00:14): readStringList: Error,
> timeout (quick).
> 2007-05-23 15:10:27.838 RemoteEncoder::SendReceiveStringList(): No response.
> 2007-05-23 15:10:27.841 GetEntryAt(-1) failed.
> 2007-05-23 15:10:27.845 EntryToProgram(0 at Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969)
> failed to get pginfo
> 2007-05-23 15:10:27.846 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
> 2007-05-23 15:10:27.846 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
> 2007-05-23 15:10:27.862 TV: Deleting TV Chain in destructor
> 2007-05-23 15:10:27.882 DPMS Deactivated
> 2007-05-23 15:10:27.884 DPMS Reactivated.

A couple of good starting points are to ensure you have listings for
your channels, and that your start channel for LiveTV is set correctly
in mythtvsetup for that input.

What capture card(s) are you using and how many card input connections
do you have configured in mythtv-setup?

-- 
Nick

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